The book collects a series of articles to review the advances that have been made in the field of gravitational collapse in general relativity and alternative t

Physical phenomena in astrophysics and cosmology involve gravitational collapse in a fundamental way. The final fate of a massive star when it collapses under i

This book discusses theoretical predictions and their comparison with experiments of extended and modified classical and quantum theories of gravity. The goal i

The ideas presented in this book are new scientific theories based largely upon a spate of very recent astronomical observations. These theories include: a cosm